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Efficient Coordination in Weakest-Link Games

Riedl, Arno; Rohde, Ingrid M. T.; Strobel, Martin - CESifo - 2011

Existing experimental research on behavior in weakest-link games shows overwhelmingly the inability of people to coordinate on the efficient equilibrium, especially in larger groups. We hypothesize that people will be able to coordinate on efficient outcomes, provided they have sufficient...

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Adverse Selection vs Discrimination Risk with Genetic Testing. An Experimental Approach

Bardey, David; Donder, Philippe De; Mantilla, Cesar - CESifo - 2014

exogenous values of adverse selection under Consent Law, and the repeated interactions experiment devised has not resulted in …

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Self-Confidence and Strategic Behavior

Charness, Gary; Rustichini, Aldo; Ven, Jeroen van de - CESifo - 2013

We test experimentally an explanation of over and under confidence as motivated by (perhaps unconscious) strategic … others’ statements of confidence about how well they have scored on an IQ test. In two-player tournaments where the highest … score wins, one is likely to enter at equilibrium when he knows that his stated confidence is higher than the other player …

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Strategic Choices for Redistribution and the Veil of Ignorance: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Gerber, Anke; Nicklisch, Andreas; Voigt, Stefan - CESifo - 2013

We provide experimental evidence on the emergence of redistributive societies. Individuals first vote on redistribution by feet and then learn their productivity and invest. We vary the individuals’ information about their productivities at the time when they choose a distribution rule and...

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Partial Coercion, Conditional Cooperation, and Self-Commitment in Voluntary Contributions to Public Goods

Cettolin, Elena; Riedl, Arno - CESifo - 2011

In this paper we experimentally investigate whether partial coercion can in combination with conditional cooperation increase contributions to a public good. We are especially interested in the behavior of the non-coerced populations. The main finding is that in our setting conditional...

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Minimum Participation Rules for the Provision of Public Goods

Gerber, Anke; Neitzel, Jakob; Wichardt, Philipp Christoph - CESifo - 2012

of our laboratory experiment do not support this latter view, though. In fact, weakening the participation requirement …

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Team Production, Gender Diversity, and Male Courtship Behavior

Siemens, Ferdinand von - CESifo - 2015

This theoretical paper explores the impact of gender diversity on team production. The key assumption is that men derive utility from signaling high ability to female colleagues. The analysis shows that some gender diversity maximizes expected team production if (i) men and women have similar...

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Interjurisdictional Linkages and the Scope for Interventionist Legal Harmonization

Baniak, Andrzej; Grajzl, Peter - CESifo - 2010

We study the desirability of interventionist harmonization of legal standards across multiple, mutually interdependent jurisdictions which strive to adapt law to their local conditions as well as to synchronize it with other jurisdictions. In a setting where jurisdictions are privately informed...

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Activists versus Captured Regulators

Daubanes, Julien; Rochet, Jean-Charles - CESifo - 2013

We analyze the consequences of activism in a regulated industry where the regulator has been captured by the industry. Unlike ordinary economic agents, activists are insensitive to monetary incentives. Moreover, they are less well informed than regulators and their actions generate dead-weight...

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On the Persistence of Strategic Sophistication

Georganas, Sotiris; Healy, Paul J.; Weber, Roberto A. - CESifo - 2014

We examine whether the ‘Level-k’ model of strategic behavior generates reliable cross-game predictions within an individual. We find no correlation in subjects’ estimated levels of reasoning across two families of games. Furthermore, estimating a higher level for Ann than Bob in one family...

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